§ The result
LandEarly leads AIApply on 6 of the 7 criteria.
LandEarly finishes 19 points clear of AIApply inside the Auto-apply cohort under rubric js-v1.0: 62 (D) against 43 (F). LandEarly leads 6 of the 7 criteria and the remaining criterion is level, so AIApply is ahead on none of them; the closest of the 6 LandEarly leads is Data & Credential Safety, AIApply 55 to LandEarly 66. The widest raw gap and the heaviest weighted swing fall on different criteria: Pricing & Cancellation Fairness (AIApply 27, LandEarly 63) and Application Honesty at 20% (AIApply 42, LandEarly 68), the second being 26% of the weighted advantage LandEarly holds across the 6 criteria on that side of the table.
Vendor profile
AIApply
AIApply is an AI job-search suite for job seekers that auto-applies to matched jobs on their behalf and generates tailored resumes and cover letters plus real-time interview coaching.
Vendor profile
LandEarly
LandEarly is an AI auto-apply platform that monitors job boards, generates role-tailored resumes and cover letters from a job seeker's real history, and submits applications through supported applicant tracking systems, with a review-before-submit step and an optional autopilot mode.
§ The record
AIApply and LandEarly are both filed under Auto-apply tools. They also share 1 secondary category: Resume AI.
| Record | AIApply | LandEarly |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Mid | Mid |
| Headquarters | US | US |
| Founded | 2023 | 2026 |
§ What decides it
The criteria that move the gap, heaviest swing first.
20% weight · 26% of the movement so far
Application Honesty
AIApply 42 · LandEarly 68
5.2 weighted points to LandEarly
10% weight · 45% of the movement so far
Pricing & Cancellation Fairness
AIApply 27 · LandEarly 63
3.6 weighted points to LandEarly
15% weight · 62% of the movement so far
User Control & Transparency
AIApply 50 · LandEarly 72
3.3 weighted points to LandEarly
15% weight · 78% of the movement so far
Employer & ATS Legitimacy
AIApply 38 · LandEarly 60
3.3 weighted points to LandEarly
20% weight · 90% of the movement so far
Data & Credential Safety
AIApply 55 · LandEarly 66
2.2 weighted points to LandEarly
12% weight · 100% of the movement so far
Effectiveness Evidence
AIApply 33 · LandEarly 50
2.0 weighted points to LandEarly
Weighted delta is the raw difference times the criterion weight, so the 6 figures above sum to -19.6 — the difference between the two totals before either is rounded. Shares are of 19.6 points of movement counted without direction. The table below rounds each side to a whole number first, so its Δ raw total reads -19 beside that -19.6.
§ Category-by-category
Raw score per criterion, with weighted delta.
Δ is AIApply minus LandEarly.
| Category | Weight | AIApply | LandEarly | Δ raw | Δ weighted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application Honesty | 20% | 42 | 68 | -26 | -5.2 |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 55 | 66 | -11 | -2.2 |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 50 | 72 | -22 | -3.3 |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 38 | 60 | -22 | -3.3 |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 33 | 50 | -17 | -2.0 |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 27 | 63 | -36 | -3.6 |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 44 | 44 | - | - |
| Total | 100% | 43 (F) | 62 (D) | -19 | -19.6 |
§ Evidence
Cited sources and documented absences, criterion by criterion.
An absence is a finding, not a blank: the reviewer looked for a named artefact and recorded that it is not located. Where a source sits is a fact about hosting only.
| Criterion | Weight | AIApply | LandEarly | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | Cited | Absences | Audit / hosting | ||
| Application Honesty | 20% | 3 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Data & Credential Safety | 20% | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 0 | 1 | — |
| User Control & Transparency | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Employer & ATS Legitimacy | 15% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Effectiveness Evidence | 12% | 2 | 0 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 1 | 1 | — |
| Pricing & Cancellation Fairness | 10% | 2 | 0 | — | 2 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| Support & Accountability | 8% | 3 | 0 | — | 1 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
| All criteria | 100% | 16 | 1 | Sources on the vendor's own domain | 10 | 6 | Sources on the vendor's own domain |
AIApply has 17 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 16 with a source URL, 1 documented absence; LandEarly has 16 evidence rows across 7 of 7 criteria — 10 with a source URL, 6 documented absences.
Provenance
The scores above are documented by 33 evidence rows on file for these two vendors: 17 for AIApply, across 6 distinct source domains, and 16 for LandEarly, across 1 distinct source domain.
- Rubric
- js-v1.0
- AIApply last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
- LandEarly last reviewed
- July 17, 2026 · HireAIScore editorial team
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§ Where next
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